 Mr Durkin contacted me feeling pessimistic about his chances of pinpointing an origin for his Irish ancestors based on his commercial ancestral DNA test results!
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 A big thank you to Mr Kirk for allowing me to publish his Case Study online.
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 The power of commercial ancestral DNA testing continues to amaze me.
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 I am delighted to have performed a successful Case Study for a Customer with very strong evidence of Viking ancestry in their commercial ancestral Y-DNA results. This included a DNA signature more typical
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 The de Lacey family take their name from Lassy in Normandy.
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 When the Normans arrived in Ireland in 1169 AD they brought with them their followers from England, Wales, and even continental Europe.
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 I recently wrote a short article on the Castles of Kilkenny for the exciting new freely accessible on-line Genealogy magazine called Irish Lives remembered.
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